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2017 film directed by Taylor Sheridan

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Wind River is a 2017 thriller, crime, mystery, and Western film directed and written by Taylor Sheridan. The cast includes Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, and Jon Bernthal. Ben Richardson served as director of photography, Gary D. Roach as film editor, and Nick Cave as composer. The film is in English and was produced by Thunder Road Pictures, Voltage Pictures, and Wild Bunch.

The narrative is set on the Wind River Indian Reservation, and filming took place in Utah. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, Netflix, and Microsoft Store, the film has a runtime of 107 minutes. It was released on August 3, 2017, with other publication dates including January 21, 2017, and February 8, 2018. The production had a budget of 11,000,000 and generated box office revenue of 43,980,821.

The film is associated with the United States, United Kingdom, and France. It received a rating of 7.7 on IMDb based on 316,132 votes and a vote average of 7.438 from 5,765 users on TMDb. The tagline is "Nothing is harder to track than the truth." A soundtrack album was released in 2017.

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Film · TMDB

7.4

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

Released: 2017-08-03107 minDir: Taylor SheridanCrime, Mystery, Drama, ThrillerBudget: $11.0MBox office: $45.0MPart of: Wind River Collection

Cast

  • Jeremy Renner as Cory Lambert
  • Elizabeth Olsen as Jane Banner
  • Gil Birmingham as Martin Hanson
  • Graham Greene as Ben
  • Jon Bernthal as Matt Rayburn
  • Kelsey Asbille as Natalie Hanson

Themes

  • wyoming, usa
  • fbi
  • investigation
  • native american
  • murder
  • native american reservation
  • questioning
  • mysterious
  • disturbed
  • nervous

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Ratings

IMDb

7.7/10

316,132 votes

Year
2017
Runtime
107 min
Genres
Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Key facts

Directed by
Taylor Sheridan
Written by
Taylor Sheridan
Produced by
Matthew George Basil Iwanyk Peter Berg Wayne L. Rogers Elizabeth A. Bell
Starring
Jeremy Renner Elizabeth Olsen
Cinematography
Ben Richardson
Edited by
Gary D. Roach
Music by
Nick Cave Warren Ellis
Production companies
Acacia Entertainment Savvy Media Holdings Synergics Films Thunder Road Pictures Film 44 The Fyzz Facility Riverstone Pictures Voltage Pictures Wild Bunch Ingenious Media Star Thrower Entertainment
Distributed by
The Weinstein Company (United States), STXinternational (United Kingdom) , Metropolitan Filmexport (France)
Release dates
January 21, 2017 ( 2017-01-21 ) ( Sundance ) August 4, 2017 ( 2017-08-04 ) (United States) August 30, 2017 ( 2017-08-30 ) (France) September 8, 2017 ( 2017-09-08 ) (United Kingdom)
Running time
107 minutes
Countries
France United Kingdom United States
Budget
$11 million
Box office
$45 million

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Encyclopedic overview

Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. It is the third film by Taylor Sheridan on the modern American West. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, and Graham Greene also star.

Taylor Sheridan has said that he wrote the film to raise awareness of the issue of the high number of Indigenous women who are raped and murdered, both on and off reservations.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wind River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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